Natalie Fleet

The requested data can be found in the attached table. The table shows the number and proportion of students entering at least 3 A levels, broken down by the number of A level entries in the Bolsover constituency and the bordering constituencies of Amber Valley, Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, Mansfield, North East Derbyshire, and Rother Valley.

There were zero A level students in the Bolsover constituency in the 2023/24 academic year.

Data is based on students attending schools and colleges located in, rather than those resident in, each constituency who have reached the end of 16-18 study.

The attached table shows the number and proportion of students entering at least three A levels in England, the Bolsover constituency and the Derbyshire local authority over the past five academic years, broken down by the number of A level entries.

There were zero A level students in the Bolsover constituency in the years in question.

Data is based on students attending schools and colleges located in each geographic area who have reached the end of 16-18 study.

The department publishes information on the percentage of pupils continuing to a sustained education, apprenticeship or employment destination in England in the year after completing key stage 4 study (after year 11) from state-funded mainstream schools.

The data in the links below contain the data requested.

Bolsover: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/4125b56e-229e-4fa5-800f-08dd45163c72.

Derbyshire: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/d0be6793-1dd3-41a7-800e-08dd45163c72.

England: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/3b73cf3a-e357-4b8a-800d-08dd45163c72.

Information on each educational establishment in England is available on the Get Information About Schools service, which is available here: https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/. In particular, the establishment fields download indicates which establishments have a sixth form and the parliamentary constituency they are in, available here: https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Downloads.

In 2023, the department collected data from local authorities on available capacity in special schools, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) units and resourced provision for the first time. The capacity data tells us approximately how many places local authorities think were available on 1 May 2023. In Derbyshire, there were approximately 1150 special school places.

The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for pupils with SEND, sits with local authorities. The department supports local authorities to provide suitable school places for children and young people with SEND through annual high needs capital funding.

We have now announced £740 million of capital for high needs funding in the 2025/26 financial year. This can be used to deliver new places in mainstream and special schools, as well as other specialist settings. It can also be used to improve the suitability and accessibility of existing buildings.

The department understands that local authorities will want certainty about the allocation of the high needs provision capital funding for the 2025/26 financial year as soon as possible, in order to develop their approach to supporting children and young people with SEND or who require alternative provision in their area. We will confirm allocations for the £740 million funding later in the spring.

Government owns the freehold of 19 motorway service areas. The DfT is in discussions with the operators regarding the future of the leases, recognising that many of these expire from around 2030. The nature of these discussions means they are commercially confidential.

The Department for Transport (DfT) and industry are jointly investing up to £43.5 million to upgrade HGV parking and driver welfare facilities across England, including at independent truck stops and motorway service areas. This is on top of up to £26 million joint investment by National Highways and industry in lorry parking facilities, including Motorway Service Areas, along the strategic road network.

This investment is supporting operators across 30 counties in England to improve security, toilets, showers and refreshment facilities and increase lorry parking spaces.

DfT also established an industry-led Task and Finish Group (TGF) on HGV facilities, which commenced in February 2024. The TFG was a 12-month, industry-led forum focused on increasing capacity for safe and secure HGV parking, and driving industry adoption of existing HGV parking standards. DfT is considering the conclusions of this group.

The Department for Transport (DfT) and industry are jointly investing up to £43.5 million to upgrade HGV parking and driver welfare facilities across England, including at independent truck stops and motorway service areas. This is on top of up to £26 million joint investment by National Highways and industry in lorry parking facilities, including Motorway Service Areas, along the strategic road network.

This investment is supporting operators across 30 counties in England to improve security, toilets, showers and refreshment facilities and increase lorry parking spaces.

DfT also established an industry-led Task and Finish Group (TGF) on HGV facilities, which commenced in February 2024. The TFG was a 12-month, industry-led forum focused on increasing capacity for safe and secure HGV parking, and driving industry adoption of existing HGV parking standards. DfT is considering the conclusions of this group.

The government introduced the Bus Services (No.2) Bill on 17 December as part of its ambitious plan for bus reform. The Bill puts the power over local bus services back in the hands of local leaders and is intended to ensure bus services reflect the needs of the communities that rely on them right across England, including ensuring access to vital local services such as hospitals or providing links to leisure attractions. The government has committed to increasing accountability by including a measure on socially necessary services so that local authorities and bus operators have to have regard for alternatives to changing or cancelling services.

In addition, the government has confirmed £955 million for the 2025 to 2026 financial year to support and improve bus services in England outside London. This includes £243 million for bus operators and £712 million allocated to local authorities, of which East Midlands Combined County Authority has been allocated £40.5 million. Local authorities can use this funding to introduce new bus routes, make services more frequent and protect crucial bus routes for local communities.

The Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain only publish data on a Traffic Area wide basis. The North Western Traffic Area includes the counties of Derbyshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Cheshire, and the metropolitan boroughs of Merseyside and Greater Manchester. Between the 2019-20 and 2023-24 reporting years the Traffic Commissioner annual reports detail the following:

An existing registration being cancelled does not always mean a bus route was closed. For example, a registration could have been cancelled and replaced with another registration that covers much of the same route, or the route continues to be served by different operator.

It should also be noted that prior to 2019-20 the total number of live local bus service registrations included an element of double-counting as services running across multiple local authority areas were recorded multiple times, e.g. a service running between Derbyshire and Greater Manchester was presented as two services when it should have been counted as a single service. This has now been rectified.

The information requested is not readily available.

Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, and some information was published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found in ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’.

A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper will be developed and undertaken in the coming months.

The table below shows the number of claimants in the Bolsover Parliamentary Constituency with a live Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work and Work-related Activity (LCWRA) award and the percentage of these claimants who are recorded as in work.

Source: DWP UC Computer System

The table below shows the number of claimants in the Bolsover Local Authority area with a live Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work and Work-related Activity (LCWRA) award and the percentage of these claimants who are recorded as in work.

Source: DWP UC Computer System

Notes:

• The Bolsover Parliamentary Constituency covers a wider area compared to the Bolsover Local Area.
• The UC health element is paid at the household level.
• A small proportion of claimants with a Limited Capability for Work (LCW) may be in receipt of a health element, if they’ve had a continuous LCW award (or received the Work-Related Activity Component of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)) that began before April 2017
• Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10 and based on internal UC systems, so are not quality assured to published official statistics standards and are subject to retrospective change.

Notes:

Base: Universal Credit households that had an assessment period that ended in April of each year.

Data for April 2024 is latest available, in line with the most recent published data on this policy.

DWP does not hold data on CTC households affected by the two-child limit.

Figures rounded to two significant figures (to a minimum of 10), and values less than 10 are suppressed in line with disclosure rules.

The difference between these figures and published statistics for Bolsover constituency is because the published stats are for those that do not receive some amount of child element due to the policy, whereas these figures include households that have an exception for all children affected by the policy.

(a) In Bolsover constituency, fewer than 10 households had a Non-Consensual Conception exception to the policy in April 2024.

(b) In Derbyshire, 50 households had a Non-Consensual Conception exception to the policy in April 2024.

(c) In England, 2,300 households had a Non-Consensual Conception exception to the policy in April 2024.

Notes:

Base: Universal Credit households that had an assessment period that ended in April 2024.

Data for April 2024 is latest available, in line with the most recent published data on this policy.

DWP does not hold data on CTC households affected by the two-child limit.

Figures rounded to two significant figures (to a minimum of 10), and values less than 10 are suppressed in line with disclosure rules.

Derbyshire area in (b) calculated as the sum of the following Local Authorities: Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Erewash, Derby, Derbyshire Dales, High Peak, North East Derbyshire, South Derbyshire

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum seekers awaiting an initial decision is published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’. This table is not broken down by local authority or constituency.

Data on asylum seekers on support by local authority is published in table Asy_D11 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’. Please note that not all asylum seekers awaiting a decision will be on support.

Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks.

The number of direct and indirect jobs supported by Ministry of Defence (MOD) expenditure with UK industry in 2022-23 by region can be found in the MOD supported employment estimates 2022/23 report on gov.uk.

This shows MOD expenditure with UK industry in the East Midlands supported 5,500 direct jobs. The MOD does not hold the information in the format required to provide a more specific breakdown.

The Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) records complaints by the individual local authority or care provider, and not by geographical area. The LGSCO received 18 complaints about Derbyshire County Council’s adult social care services in the 2019-20 financial year, 19 in 2020-21, 22 in 2021-22, 29 in 2022-23 and 29 in 2023-24.

The Government does not collect data on the number of people who have had bailiff fees added to council tax arrears for any year or region or on the average cost of bailiff fees.

Figures relating to Section 21 eviction proceedings in individual constituencies in England are not held by the department, but we know that chronic insecurity in the private rented sector in Derbyshire has real-life consequences for individuals and families. Tenants across England will benefit from the measures in the forthcoming Renters’ Rights Bill, including the abolition of Section 21 evictions.

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of prosecutions at magistrates’ courts in England and Wales for non-payment of a television licence, in the Outcomes by Offence data tool. This includes breakdowns by police force area. The data tool can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: June 2024 - GOV.UK.

Published data includes the police force area of prosecutions, but it is not possible to separately identify Bolsover constituency as this information is not available in the Court Proceedings Database held by the Ministry of Justice.